Sentences with phrase «of access to drinking water»

Likewise, it can be anticipated that food access and utilization will be affected indirectly via collateral effects on household and individual incomes, and food utilization could be impaired by loss of access to drinking water and damage to health.

In 2013, the Department of Labor announced it had uncovered «evidence of apparent and potential violations» of labor standards outlined in the Dominican Republic - Central American Free Trade Agreement in the company's farms, including lack of access to drinking water, 12 - hour work days, seven - day work weeks, employment of minors and overtime abuses.

the lack of access to drinking water in school cafeterias and the degree to which the new requirement to provide water is an unfunded mandate many schools will have trouble meeting;

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As of now,, less than half the population has access to drinking water, according to CNN, and only half of the island's roads have been cleared.

Diseases borne of drinking unfiltered water are likely to spread, and an unknown number of storm victims have no access to food.

There is still a lack of access to safe drinking water, leading to preventable deaths.

And «more than half of the 3.4 million residents lacking access to clean drinking water,» according to POLITICO.

These struggles are also coping with occupation, use and distribution of the earth, the right to eat, access to drinking water, to be kept warm.

The Dakota Access Pipeline was brought to a halt by Obama recently, after several months of protest by Native Americans of the Standing Rock Sioux who argued that their sacred land was being disrupted by the pipeline and that a leak in the pipeline would threaten their drinking water.

you can start a really vigorous gluten free starter culture without having to open a whole packet of yeast for just a few grains by using a tablespoon or so of a fermented drink — kombucha, water kefir (Whole Foods carries a coconut water kefir that is very active) or if you have access to real unpasteurized sauerkraut you could probably use some of the liquid.

The UN works on many water entities such as distributing drinking water during disasters, protecting ecosystems, making sure that water is of sufficient quality, ensuring that our cities have enough water infrastructure, measuring progress of access to sanitation, looking at how we will have enough water to make food.

The drinks holder is designed to Velcro in place onto the handle bar or chassis of your stroller, giving you easy access to your water bottle.

The trays are at both ends of the stroller, making it easy for both the babies and you to have easy access to the cups to sip a drink or water during a strolling or jogging session.

So, if a Guatemalan mom wants to give her nine - month - old a coffee - infused sugar drink from a bottle, I have two options: I can gasp in disgust and silently judge her in my head, pointing out all of the reasons why giving that baby anything but breast milk is not good for its health or newly formed teeth, or I can take time to learn and respect that maybe for this mom, who lives in conditions where there is little access to clean water, boiling water to make coffee is the only way to ensure her little baby doesn't get sick.

While many more people now have better access to drinking water, sanitation and health care, the world is still an unequal place: 2.5 billion — more than one third of the world's population — still have totally inadequate sanitation.16 Artificial feeding of an infant instead of breastfeeding in such settings can literally mean the difference between life and death.

At camps that don't have access to pools or air - conditioned buildings — including some camps based in Chicago parks — counselors must be even more vigilant about making sure children stay in the shade, take it easy and drink plenty of water.

1.35 million people in developing countries, most of them children, die every year from diarrhoeal diseases associated with lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation, poor hygiene and overcrowding.

I would prefer my children to have more access to drinking water than offer them milk of any sort at school.

* Fits flush against kitchen counters for safe access, allowing your child to get a drink of water, help with dishes and laundry, decorate cookies and join in with other family activities

Those of us who have access to fluoridated water, toothbrushes, and dental care don't usually think of severe dental disease as a consequence of drinking sodas.

As of Wednesday, half of Puerto Ricans had access to drinking water and 5 percent of the island had electricity, according to statistics on FEMA's Web page documenting the federal response to Maria.

Mr Mahama added: «If you take water, today the whole of West Africa, no country matches Ghana in terms of access to clean drinking water.

Both of our agencies are thoroughly reviewing the EPA's guidance as we continue our aggressive efforts to ensure that all communities in New York State have access to water that's safe to drink.

For example, Nigeria is one of the African nations with least access to an improved water source that could supply safe drinking water.

State environmental officials last night ordered Northrop Grumman to grant access to wells monitoring a Bethpage plume after the local water district reported levels of the radioactive element radium exceeded drinking water standards.

As of Wednesday, half of Puerto Ricans had access to drinking water and 5 percent of the island had electricity, according to statistics published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency on its Web page documenting the federal response to Hurricane Maria.

The Democrat said conditions on the island remain «deplorable» and noted that 80 percent of residents remain without power and almost a third have no access to clean drinking water more than a month after Hurricane Maria hit.

Madeleine Foote of the League of Conservation Voters said, «This executive order is about one thing: protecting polluters at the expense of our communities and their access to clean drinking water.»

«I urge leaders in Albany to convene hearings so that we can examine how officials at all levels of government have responded to contaminated drinking water in upstate communities and what must be done to restore access to clean water for residents in those communities,» she said in a statement.

Puerto Rican scientists are still taking stock of the magnitude of the wreckage nearly two weeks after the hurricane made landfall on Sept. 20 as Category 4 winds propelled trees into buildings, knocked out power systems, left residents without fuel for generators and transportation and diminished access to drinking water and food supplies.

Only half the population of Haiti had access to proper sanitation, and only a third had clean drinking water, even before the devastating earthquake in January.

Portable potable test One of the reasons that the U.N. relies on improved sources as a measure of drinking water access rather than actual safety is that the latter is much more difficult to assess than counting wells and spigots.

When these improved waters were tested and compared with survey data about where people got most of their water, the estimates for the populations that have access to safe drinking water fell by 16 percent in Nicaragua, 15 percent in Nigeria, 11 percent in Ethiopia and 7 percent in Tajikistan.

The water MDG was widely acknowledged as the furthest from delivering against its objective, with criticism largely levelled at Target 7.C, which aimed to «halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation».

We suffer deluges in the form of floods, tsunamis and rising sea levels, while at the same time one in six people on the planet do not have access to safe drinking water.

U.N. Development Goals for better drinking water have already been reached, but a closer look shows that the measures fail to truly account for the lack of access to safe water

The problem is that at least 100 of the state's aquifers were presumed to be useless for drinking and farming because the water was either of poor quality, or too deep underground to easily access.

But the catastrophe is actually an unintended consequence of a successful drive to increase access to fresh drinking water.

The researchers conclude that improved monitoring and access to water withdrawal and streamflow data are needed to ensure protection of streams as drinking water sources and valuable habitat in the future.

New research demonstrates the real - world potential of providing clean drinking water for millions of people who struggle to access adequate clean water sources.

I've been mindful of the amount of water I use when making a pot of coffee ever since learning that one - third of the tap water used for drinking in North America is actually used to brew our daily cups of joe — and that if each of us avoided wasting just one cupful of coffee a day, we could save enough water over the course of a year to provide two gallons to every one of the more than 1.1 billion people who don't have access to freshwater at all.

The UN estimates that half of the world's population in 2030 will live in areas with limited access to clean drinking water.

While serious violations like those in the Flint, Michigan, crises are rare, ensuring reliable access to safe drinking water poses challenges for communities across the country, according to a recent study led by the University of California, Irvine.

Hundreds of millions of people do not, after all, have access to safe drinking water.

For example, there's been a 14 % increase in the proportion of the population with access to safe drinking water, and the number of protected areas is increasing.

-- Nell Fox, Seattle, WA Today fully one - sixth of the world's human population lacks access to clean drinking water, and more than two million people — mostly kids — die each year from water - borne diseases.

An estimated one billion people currently do not have access to safe drinking water, and nearly half of the world's population will live in places with water shortages, according to a new United Nations report.

Beyond this, millions of children around the world have little to no access to safe, clean drinking water.

So, although as North Americans we are very fortunate to have easy access to decent water supplies, there is still an opportunity to optimize the quality of our drinking water.

The day after a sugar binge, start off with 8 ounces hot water and the juice of 1/2 a lemon to detoxify, and drink green vegetable juices if you have access (celery, parsley, green apple, cucumber, ginger makes a nice blend) to alkalize the body; sugar is very acidic.